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4. Converting Filters

This one stumped me for a while. I had a collection of about 100 filters that I use for two main purposes:
  1. Move emails to destination folder for archival before I have seen them
  2. Move emails to destination folder after I have seen them
This is no trivial difference. In the former category are all the emails that deal with mailing lists I am not currently interested in. In the latter all other emails.

Oddly enough, Kmail doesn't apply filters to IMAP email. That suits me just well, since I wanted server-side filtering to be able to access my relevant email remotely without having to go through a ton of junk.

Now the good news is that this is about the most frequently heard complaint about Kmail/IMAP, so that it's a high priority for the next KDE release (3.5). Converting the filters automatically is not efficient, because of the nature of the two systems.

Hence I came up with a different path: I figured I had filters for the following occasions:
  • I got an email from a mailing list, like Perl-Beginners; file it to a folder
  • I got an email from a vendor, like Amazon; dito


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